Using Life-Cycle Human Factors Engineering to Avoid 2.4 Million in Costs: Lessons Learned from NASA's Requirements Verification Process for Space Payloads (2008)
Author: Carr, Daniel; Ellenberger, Ric
Subject: CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITES; PHASE DIAGRAMS; SILICON; SULFIDES; OXYGEN; BACKSCATTERING; MELTS (CRYSTAL GROWTH); PERIDOTITE; ENSTATITE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS; PRESSURE; MINERALOGY; IRON OXIDES; KAMACITE; MELTING
Year: 2008
Language: English
Book contributor: NASA
Collection: nasa_techdocs
Description
The Human Factors Implementation Team (HFIT) process has been used to verify human factors requirements for NASA International Space Station (ISS) payloads since 2003, resulting in 2.4 million in avoided costs. This cost benefit has been realized by greatly reducing the need to process time-consuming formal waivers (exceptions) for individual requirements violations. The HFIT team, which includes astronauts and their technical staff, acts as the single source for human factors requirements integration of payloads. HFIT has the authority to provide inputs during early design phases, thus eliminating many potential requirements violations in a cost-effective manner. In those instances where it is not economically or technically feasible to meet the precise metric of a given requirement, HFIT can work with the payload engineers to develop common sense solutions and formally document that the resulting payload design does not materially affect the astronaut s ability to operate and interact with the payload. The HFIT process is fully ISO 9000 compliant and works concurrently with NASA s formal systems engineering work flow. Due to its success with payloads, the HFIT process is being adapted and extended to ISS systems hardware. Key aspects of this process are also being considered for NASA's Space Shuttle replacement, the Crew Exploration Vehicle.
Creative Commons license: Public Domain
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